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[edit]| Early Bronze Age flat axehead | |||
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Lucy Shipley, 2020-04-24 22:35:24 |
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Early Bronze Age flat axehead |
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| Description |
English: A copper alloy flat axehead of Migdale type, dating to the Early Bronze Age, c. 2200-2000 BC.
The axehead has a long slender butt, tapering gently to the flared blade. It is rectangular in cross section, although the blade narrows to its original cutting surface. It appears undecorated but the surface is pitted and marked across the dark green shiny patina. There is a small area on one side near the blade which has decayed in a different manner, and is now a far brighter green and much more corroded, although there are no signs of bronze disease or ongoing decay. It is similar to CORN-68C636, the record for which states that: Similar slender flat axeheads with straight-sided butt ends can be seen in records CORN-6C605C, DENO-93FB17, SUR-E3F467, LANCUM-6507C2, and SOMDOR-C71623 on the database. These axes all fit within the earliest phases of metal working in Britain, metalworking stage II, which corresponds to Needham's (1996) Period 2 (c.2350-2050 cal BC).... Knight, Ormrod & Pearce (2015: 87, no. 3, 11, 213) illustrate the latest slender Migdale type of flat axes to be recorded in the South West from Boscastle in Cornwall, Bishop's Tawton in Devon and Burton in Dorset." Measurements: 83.1mm length, 29.9mm width (blade), 14.9mm width (butt), 5.6mm thickness, weight 46.5g. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Devon | ||
| Date | between 2200 BC and 2000 BC | ||
| Accession number |
FindIdentifier: 1001587 |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1101451 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1101451/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1001587 |
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